Dialects

• Northern branch (also called zis dialects):
  • Bugurdži Romani in Macedonia
    Republic of Macedonia
    Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
    
     and the Kosovo
    Kosovo
    Kosovo is a region in southeastern Europe. Part of the Ottoman Empire for more than five centuries, later the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija within Serbia...
    
    
  • Drindari Romani
  • Kalajdži Romani in Bulgaria (CL: Bulgarian
    Bulgarian language
    Bulgarian is an Indo-European language, a member of the Slavic linguistic group.Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language, demonstrates several linguistic characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages such as the elimination of case declension, the...
    
    )
  • Kovački Romani in Macedonia (CL: Macedonian
    Macedonian language
    Macedonian is a South Slavic language spoken as a first language by approximately 2–3 million people principally in the region of Macedonia but also in the Macedonian diaspora...
    
    )
  • Xoraxane Romani in Bulgaria (CL: Bulgarian, Turkish
    Turkish language
    Turkish is a language spoken as a native language by over 83 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Northern Cyprus with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo,...
    
    ), spoken by the Xoraxane
    Muslim Roma
    Muslim Roma or Muslim Gypsies are Romani people who adopted Islam. Romanies have usually adopted the predominant religion of the host country. Islam among Romanies is historically associated with life of Romanies within the Ottoman Empire...
    
    
• Southern branch:
  • Arli Romani in southern Serbia & Montenegro (CL: Serbian
    Serbian language
    Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
    
    ), Macedonia (CL: Macedonian) and northern Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
    
     (CL: Greek
    Greek language
    Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
    
    )
  • Cocomanya Romani in Bulgaria (CL: Bulgarian)
  • Crimean Romani in the Russia (CL: Russian, Tatar
    Tatar language
    The Tatar language , or more specifically Kazan Tatar, is a Turkic language spoken by the Tatars of historical Kazan Khanate, including modern Tatarstan and Bashkiria...
    
    )
  • Džambazi Romani in Macedonia
  • Erli Romani (Yerli) in Bulgaria
    Bulgaria
    Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a parliamentary democracy within a unitary constitutional republic in Southeast Europe. The country borders Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south, as well as the Black Sea to the east...
    
     (CL: Bulgarian)
  • Gurvari Romani in Hungary
  • Romacilikanes in Greece (CL: Greek)
  • Rumelian Romani in the Rumelia
    Rumelia
    Rumelia was an historical region comprising the territories of the Ottoman Empire in Europe...
    
     region between Greece and Turkey (CL: Greek, Turkish)
  • Sepeči Romani in Greece (CL: Turkish)
  • Sepečides Romani in Volos
    Volos
    Volos is a coastal port city in Thessaly situated midway on the Greek mainland, about 326 km north of Athens and 215 km south of Thessaloniki...
    
     (Greece) and Izmir
    Izmir
    Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...
    
     (Turkey)
  • Sofades Romani in Greece (CL: Greek), spoken by the Sofades
    Sofades
    Sofades is a town and municipality in Thessaly, central Greece belonging to the peripheral unit of Karditsa. Its 2001 census population was 6,106 people and 23,043 for the municipality, including a large Roma minority. Its elevation is around 120 m above sea level, and the economy is mainly...
    
     Romani
  • Ursari Romani in Romania (CL: Romanian), spoken by the Ursari
    Ursari
    The Ursari or Richinara are the traditionally-nomad occupational group of animal trainers among the Roma people.An endogamous category originally drawing the bulk of its income from busking performances in which they used brown bears...
    
    
• Iranian
  • Zargari Romani

Sample

External links

• Balkan Romani entry at Ethnologue